[OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Correction: "... reject addition of a user description or a diary entry
*with a link or a URL*..."

This is to reduce false positives.


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> The spam on users' diaries and users' pages is getting quite annoying. Some
> user just now flooded the main diary page with drug ads. Using rel=nofollow
> is apparently not much of a deterrent.
>
> I think one really effective way of dealing with this is to reject addition
> of a user description or a diary entry if the user is quite new and has no
> OSM edits yet. This would correspond to the Wikipedia user without the
> autoconfirmed bit set yet.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> (Then again, it may be that the sysads can currently handle the volume now
> so this change in the site software is not needed.)
>
>
> Eugene (osm:seav)
>



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